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Equality and Human Rights Commission

Minister for disabled people caught misleading MPs on cuts to support… again

By John Pring on 21st June 2018 Category: Human Rights

Minister for disabled people caught misleading MPs on cuts to support… again
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The minister for disabled people has been caught misleading MPs – again – as she tried to defend her government’s repeated breaches of the UN disability convention. It was the second time in five months that Sarah Newton (pictured) has misled […]

Relegated Premier League clubs ‘should use part of “parachute” millions on access’

By John Pring on 24th May 2018 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Relegated Premier League clubs ‘should use part of “parachute” millions on access’
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Some of the country’s top football clubs have been told by the equality watchdog to spend some of the millions of pounds they receive when promoted and relegated from the Premier League to improve access for disabled fans. The call to […]

Benefit sanctions regime discriminates against disabled claimants, new research shows

By John Pring on 22nd February 2018 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Benefit sanctions regime discriminates against disabled claimants, new research shows
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is facing claims that it has been running a discriminatory benefit sanctions regime, following the publication of new research. Academic Ben Baumberg Geiger has found that more than 900,000 disabled claimants of the mainstream […]

Activists welcome disability commissioner’s decision to leave EHRC

By John Pring on 3rd November 2016 Category: Human Rights

Activists welcome disability commissioner’s decision to leave EHRC
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Disabled activists have welcomed the decision of the equality watchdog’s disability commissioner not to seek a second four-year term. The decision of Lord [Chris] Holmes was only revealed after the Department for Education (DfE), the sponsor department of the Equality and […]

Disability hate crime has fallen since 2007-2010, surprise new figures suggest

By John Pring on 8th September 2016 Category: Crime

Disability hate crime has fallen since 2007-2010, surprise new figures suggest
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Levels of disability hate crime in England and Wales have fallen in the years between 2007 and 2014, figures contained in a new report by the equality watchdog suggest. The publication is the latest in a series of follow-up reports carried […]

Isaac takes EHRC chair, despite concerns over DWP ‘outsourcing’ work

By John Pring on 12th May 2016 Category: Human Rights

Isaac takes EHRC chair, despite concerns over DWP ‘outsourcing’ work
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The new chair of the equality watchdog has taken up his new post, despite question-marks over potential conflicts of interest arising from his legal firm’s work for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and other government departments. David Isaac took […]

Tory peer faces calls to quit as EHRC commissioner over support for WRAG cuts

By John Pring on 21st April 2016 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Tory peer faces calls to quit as EHRC commissioner over support for WRAG cuts
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Disabled campaigners are calling for the resignation of the equality watchdog’s disability commissioner, the disabled Tory peer Lord [Chris] Holmes, after he voted in favour of disability benefit cuts when they had been condemned by his own organisation. The letter to […]

Fresh staff cuts at EHRC ‘will undermine its vital work’

By John Pring on 21st April 2016 Category: Human Rights

Fresh staff cuts at EHRC ‘will undermine its vital work’
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The equality watchdog is set to make nearly 30 members of staff redundant, in what critics say is a blow to its efforts to enforce equality laws and hold the government to account over its record on disability discrimination. The Equality […]

Fears over government links as equality watchdog launches welfare probe

By John Pring on 14th April 2016 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Fears over government links as equality watchdog launches welfare probe
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The equality watchdog is facing concerns over links between the government and two of its leading figures as it prepares to investigate whether Tory welfare reforms have breached the human rights of disabled people. Last week, Disability News Service (DNS) revealed […]

Equality watchdog to mirror UN inquiry into DWP’s rights violations

By John Pring on 7th April 2016 Category: Human Rights

Equality watchdog to mirror UN inquiry into DWP’s rights violations
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The equality watchdog is to commission a major piece of research into whether the government’s welfare reforms have harmed the human rights of disabled people and other minority groups. The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) says it wants to examine […]

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